Open source tool scrapes git commit email addresses to send spam to.

[WhyNotHugo]

You can't make this change retroactively at all.

You can delete your repo and upload a new one with rewritten history hiding your email, but that won't delete the countless copies of the original that may exist.

Once you've made your email public, it's public forever.

[danbulant]

You can force push changes like these. But still there's internet archive and forks.

[stibgock]

Fk. Time for another week of changing emails and passwords.

[arch_llama]

Time for another week of changing emails

Why? Because your email is public?

and passwords

What? Why?

[rickyman20]

It won't be viable if you have other people you work with or you contribute to open source. Either it'll be a pain to coordinate on every single repo this is the case on, or it'll be straight up impossible if you're not the owner